Where’s your Steam Deck preorder email? Valve explains

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Valve's $400-and-up portable gaming PC the Steam Deck went on sale this morning... but you didn't get an email from Valve, I'm guessing? I didn't either - and as Valve's just now explaining, that's because they're going out in small batches rather than all at once; the next batch won't be arriving until Monday, March 7th; and then they'll go out in weekly batches each Monday, presumably through the month of June.

Did you have a reservation for Q1 2022? You should see your email by the end of March. Q2 2022? They'll start in April, when I'll hopefully get mine since I ordered on the very first day (but who knows, the reservation website had a lot of trouble that morning).

And if your reservation says After Q2 2022," Valve says stay...

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